Water 2005 Essay

The film Water 2005 is a period film set in pre-independent India of 1938. During this time child marriage had not yet been completely abolished in India. It was very common for child brides to be married off to much older men as a settlement of debt, as riddance to the female child in the family, and as an effort to be done with the parental responsibility of marrying off a female child. The child bride now married continued to stay in the house of her parents, until puberty, after which she would be sent to the house of the older man she was married to. The older men used to end up dying of age, ailments and diseases. The child widow lost her youth and her entire life. She cannot remarry because widow remarriage was uncommon in society and

When we talk about 21st century or present condition of Indian widow’s identity and women states in the Indian society, we can surely say that present condition is better than 19th century. In the present time India is more aware of rights of women. What Deepa Mehta has projected Indian widow’s identity is picture of pre-independence Indian women not present. So what is intension of Deepa Mehta through this movie? That is big question of Indian society because in the modern time, the younger generations in parts of India, where girls are beginning to forgo the more traditional ways of Indian life and break gender stereotypes. In more flourishing parts of the country, the idea of “dating,” or more specifically openly dating, has come into play, and the terms “girlfriend” and “boyfriend” are being used. Some women are making their careers in Bollywood or Hollywood and advertisements, politics, force in short everywhere. At last, every society is good or bad it can be judged by its present time. So which types of condition of women is in contemporary India? And which types of identity of Indian women has been projected by Deepa Mehta in front of world that is big